The Global Issues Forum: Health in Smart Urban Environments is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration driven by faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and National Taiwan University. The forum brings together faculty in Engineering fields who focus on the development and deployment of technologies to reliable, responsive and sustainable urban infrastructures, faculty in natural resources and agricultural sciences who focus on environmental impacts and sustainability issues in expanding urban areas, and faculty in social sciences and humanities who focus on the human factors that affect and are affected by urban lifestyles.

The Forum has identified six sub-themes within the broader rubric of “Health in Smart Urban Environments,” each of which engages faculty from various disciplines: